Here you got the intro for Rare Play Vol. 2!
DJ Premier – Rare Play Vol. 2 (Intro)
DJ Premier on Cormega upcoming album
Last night Cormega presented in more then 7 years time his new album”Born And Raised” at the SOBs. Cormega presented two tracks produced by DJ Premier, one we already know as the “Dirty Game“. The other is a track we never heard before, so watch out for that one! Also Large Professor, Havoc, Lil’ Fame and Pete Rock are on the boards. People who visited the party were able to tell me that the new Premo track is doper then the “Dirty Game” track, which was also nice with the lovely Barry White sample. The new Pete Rock track was also outstanding I’ve heard. Album date isn’t annouced yet, but it will be released on Legal Hustle Records.
Preem also spoke the intro for the new Torae & Marco Polo collabo album “Double Barrel” (out in june).
Gang Starr – Moment Of Truth Sampler Tape
Here’s the sampler promo tape of “Moment of Truth“. You won’t see any unreleased cuts that didn’t make the album on there but the great thing about it is that you hear DJ Premier & Guru talking and presenting in-between each tracks.
Tracklist:
- Intro
- You Know My Steez
- Royalty
- Work
- What I’m Here
- B.I. Vs. Friendship
- Next Time
- New York Strait Talk
- Outro
Gang Starr – Moment Of Truth Sampler Tape
Props to dirt_dog and T.R.O.Y. Blog!
DJ Premier on M.O.P. upcoming album
M.O.P. is back, after a long absence the legendary hip hop crew will be back with a new album called “For The Foundation“. To make it even better, DJ Premier is incidentally co-executive producer. He will mix the album who contains productions from DR Period, Fizzy Womack, Nottz, Buckwild, Red spider and yes, DJ Premier himself. Classic in the making? Album is set to release june 30th on Koch Records.
Source: Defsounds
DJ Premier on DMC upcoming album
Run-DMC member DMC is set to release a new album called “The Origins of Block Music” wich will be featured DJ Premier, Bumpy Knuckles and Public Enemy‘s Chuck D. The first single is called “She Gets Me High” and is produced by newcomer Sonix. The song is set to release on his birthday, may 31. The album should come in june. The main article is about how he understands why Lil Wayne is moved to rock and how he wants to open for Lil Wayne’s concerts.
Source: Austin Brown Blog
DJ Premier Considers Albums With KRS-One & MC Eiht
DJ Premier, one of Hip Hop’s most coveted producers is having quite a busy year. Aside from starting his own label DJ Premier is also working on projects with rappers Blaq Poet, MC Eiht, and possibly KRS-One.
In a recent interview with Conspiracy Radio, DJ Premier spoke on his upcoming collaborations as well as the current status of Hip Hop.
“The level of the bar was so high that it was really hard to get into Hip Hop unless you really had top-notch skills, beats, rhyming, everything,” DJ Premier explained. “We wanna put that part [to the] forefront. So we’ll do it eventually. It’ll get its spot back, but in the meantime it never died or anything it’s just not as out there as the mainstream watered down rap stuff and that’s cool because it helps us reformat our audience that wants to support this style and the ones that don’t want to support it we’re not making it for them anyway.”
Among the four artists on DJ Premier’s new label, Year Round Records, is Blaq Poet former member of pioneering Queens Hip Hop group Screwball.
“We’re about to drop this album from Blaq Poet. Straight out of Queensbridge. We just shot the video. The album’s called Tha Blaqprint. That is the official album. I produced the entire album.” A tracklist posted on fansite djpremierblog.blogspot.com has reported that Easy Mo Bee and one other producer actually make contributions to Poet‘s solo debut, distributed through Fat Beats.
Aside from the artists already on his label, DJ Premier’s Year Round Records may also feature albums by KRS-One and MC Eiht.
“I’m thinking about doing a project with MC Eiht [of] Compton’s Most Wanted,” DJ Premier explained to Conspiracy Radio. “We talked about doing an album on my label, and also me and KRS-One talked about doing not Return Of The Boom Bap; we’re gonna do Return Of The Boom Bips. So right now that’s still a go. An all KRS, Premier album would be great.” Besides a “Criminal Minded” update in recent years, the two are best known for their work together between 1993 and 1995, on the self-titled and Return Of The Boom Bap albums. Compton’s Most Wanted used Premier to remix their 1992 song “Def Wish II,” a song originally have appeared on Music To Driveby.
Source: HipHopDX
1st April Fools!!
I’m allowed sons, I’m allowed God! It’s the first of April so I can post this haha:
Props to Sauli for this art and Guru: this blog got nothing to do with DJ Premier personal. Tomorrow I’ll get back to the program folks.
DJ Premier Interview in Bulgaria
Wow, they have a hip hop tv in Bulgaria? It even looks professional, to bad they didn’t had a professional host:
And here you have part 3 of the Polish interview.
Why Gang Starr Reunion Will Never Happen
…because Guru is smokin’ something wack? I know this blog gets a lot of visitors so I need to keep it objective, but fuck that for now. I’m going to tell you my opinion about this situation (as a fan like thousands of you), so if you don’t like it go (to a place where your shit rest). DJ Premier didn’t had any contact with Guru since The Ownerz tour ended in Australia, he had some mails and that’s all. It was a fact Preem and Guru had a lot of fights, even personal fights like Guru’s drinking issue and stuff like that but that is what real friends make (fo sho), they were about to first split in ’97 because of the fights and Guru who had to go to court that time, but Gordon told Premo what the deal was and he sticked with Guru and made “Moment of Truth”. Offcourse they sticked together, that is real friendship…
We still don’t know what happened between Premier and Guru, but whatever happend, it doesn’t make any difference people. Hell with that, I don’t even want to know what happened. Real friends always come together again, no matter what happened. They were like more then 10 years friends. That’s how I experience life, so that could maybe be the first reason: no real friendship? Nah son, forget that… I’m tripping.
Now we got a lot of people asking Gang Starr this, Gang Starr that to Premier. Stop that, don’t drive his head crazy, we already know his answer: “I’m ready when he is, bla bla bla”. Don’t question me, I ain’t dissin’ Premo. Love this positive attitude towards Guru who is acting the king of hip hop. Obviously Premier is the bigger guy here (and I’m mostly riding his dig), but he needs to step his game up. I understand he doesn’t have a lot of time, but if he really want a new Gang Starr album (same as Guru back as friend) he needs to say “Fuck this, I’m going to his home and we will smoke a big fat peace blunt and bring up memories”. This could be the second reason why Gang Starr will never be again, Premo is too lazy? Nah son, forget that… I’m tripping.
But now we have Guru saying only he is Gang Starr:
So why don’t we do this, why don’t we just skip that discussion and I’ll just say I am Gang Starr,” he replied when asked to address the elephant in the room. “Gang Starr is me. And it comes out in whatever I do, to the fullest. 7 Grand is the future. Guru and Solar are those intelligent, creative leaders that Hip Hop needs right now, and will be needing… It’s your favorite rapper, the legendary, combined with NYC’s brightest producer. That’s what it’s about. […] We are ‘The Ownerz.’ Solar and I are real owners. Instead of a concept, this is real.”
This could be the biggest problem of them all, I wonder how Premo feels now. I’m not expecting him to cry in 
a dark room, but I guess you don’t like to hear this when you worked your ass of for more then a decade for the true thing you love. And what the fuck is wrong with Guru, he needs some medication, ok, you are the king, go spread that. But we all know the source of this reckless behaviour, yes, here is his part: Superproducer Solar. First of all: C’mon son, did you serious say “I produced maybe four underground records and I’m working with Guru now, that means… I AM A SUPERPRODUCER”. The fact that you call yourself a superproducer is like Vanilla Ice saying he is the best rapper ever, point zero. But I guess he is cleaver, think about the groupies who are going to say “I’m going to the superproducer”. Not to mention how funny it’s watching Guru’s interviews where superproducer Solar is interrupting him all the time to say everything better. This could be the third reason, Superproducer Solar is Guru’s father? Nah son, forget this… I’m tripping.
But hey, now it’s sounds like I’m dissing everybody especially Superproducer Solar? Yes, you are right as matter of fact I am. But that was after I thought there could be a middle way for this “DJ Premier wants Gang Starr, but Guru wants only Superproducer Solar” situation. I really didn’t saw the problem of Guru with DJ Premier making records and Guru making records with Superproducer Solar. Why don’t do the both? DJ Premier produced for Jazzmatazz before and Superproducer Solar has some dope productions, no question. But the reason I bought a Jazzmatazz album was for the difference, the difference artists on it and the difference productions. Would it be so crazy to have one Premo record on that album? Oelalala, what’s wrong? Scared of his production skills? Scared of how dope that scratch sound? No man, now I’m hating on 7Grand again (sorry). That’s not what I meant, I was trying to think about a solution but maybe it’s better Gang Starr won’t happen again, if you do a reunion just for the fans then you have to quit immedialty… You can’t continue your legacy with a fucked up vibe. Now you heard my version of why a Gang Starr Reunion will never happen, excuse myself…
This is one of the rare times I post my own opinions, but I felt I needed to speak up for this one time and shut up forever you know. Don’t expect more of this, I’m not really an eThug… If you are Guru or DJ Premier and you feel like, I would say maybe like this, I don’t know… Could be: “Man, who does he think he is? My shadow?” then you need to contact me. Like I said, we are going to quit this now. Sorry Guru, I won’t go to your show in Ostend. Yes Premo, I’ll go to your show in Ghent end of this month. Oh, Premo, don’t forget to leak that Teflon track on LiveFromHQ, you forgot to give it to DJ Eclipse last week. Peace! And if you are wondering what I eat, still toblerone all day every day. And one day, Gang Starr will be together again…
Scratch Academy: Beatmaking 101
This one got uploaded some weeks ago, it’s a part from the Scratch Academy DVD where DJ Premier, Evil Dee, DJ Shok & Reg E Gaines sit together and talk about hip hop. It’s nothing new, it’s old stuff but I never saw it before and it’s interesting. Take a look:
